Christie Matheson is the author and illustrator of several award-winning picture books, including Tap the Magic Tree and Plant the Tiny Seed, as well as the middle grade novel Shelter and the forthcoming middle grade novel Select. Her picture books have been translated into more than twenty languages. She loves looking for owls in the forest, skiing in snowstorms, coaching soccer, reading mysteries, running and hiking and swimming with her kids, and painting things she sees in nature. She wrote her first book for children when she was seven, but that one hasn’t been published yet. Christie lives in San Francisco with her family.